A correspondent of the Michigan Horticulturist says that :

"Pomological Societies are largely made up of nurserymen, who may or may not have some pet scheme, in which they are pecuniarily interested. This may or may not influence their nerves enough to sway their opinions".

So far as we have seen, the great body of nurserymen are remarkably free from bias in their discussions at these conventions. We have known men in the trade say nothing when they have been unwittingly caught with a large stock of a poor thing. But we never knew any one praise what he knew to be unworthy, and we have even known cases where men with large stocks of an article condemn it, when forced by circumstances to take part in debate.